Technology can feel like a different galaxy, far away from everyday life. Yes it is and at the same time technology is very much part of our everyday business, from the computer to the lock on your car, to the navigation of the train you take to work (especially if you live in for instance Copenhagen were the Metro is operated without any human driver in the train)

So when the idea and the work with what will be CoScene started to take place many thoughts of why popped up – Why another device or software? Why technology and not a roundtable session with singing and handholding? Why technology and not nature?

Well we think that technology is part of our lives, for better and worse, in the same way as trees and flowers. One cannot replace the other. We also believe that the distance between person and technology can be huge, that technology (the use of) creates an inside group with lots of skills and knowledge and different level group ranging from almost no knowledge to quite a lot. For the group with little or no knowledge and skills the void to cross might be overwhelming and sometimes impossible to over-bridge. With the development in medicine many people are today in need of technical inventions to survive and/or get through the day – from wheelchairs to pacemakers. For them the tech is part of them as a person and without it the might not be or at least not be the same person with the same possibilities.

CoScene therefor has two crucial parts that can be summarized by the words bridge and interaction. CoScene shall open up for the possibility to act as a bridge over the technological void by it’s intuitive mode – interaction through sound and motion, and an uncomplicated interface. Interaction is a core value in the process. The interaction between one person and another through technology and in relation to technology is fundamental.

Bridge is also a great image of the interaction and communication between humans and between human and technology. As Isaac Newton said: We build too many walls and not enough bridges.